"If only the solutions were so simple."

Sudan polio threat to whole of Africa
A POLIO outbreak in Sudan threatens to spread across the whole of Africa, the United Nations has warned

South Africa troop deployment in Sudan's Darfur delayed
The deployment of South African troops to strife-torn western Sudan has been postponed due to alleged delaying tactics by the Sudanese government, SA National Defence force officers told MPs on Monday.

Warning for SA troops heading to Sudan
South African soldiers have been warned not to bring the country into disrepute while engaged in an African Union peacekeeping mission.

AU Mission In Darfur Understaffed,
Under Funded And Ill Equipped, Says OXFAM
The international aid agency, OXFAM, says the current African Union mission in Darfur is understaffed and ill equipped to deal with the crisis. Only half of the promised 3,300 AU troops have been deployed in western Sudan.

Southern Africa aims for monetary union by 2016
Countries within the 13-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) have decided to achieve monetary and economic union by 2016, South Africa's central bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Monday.

Zim must sort out problems - Mboweni
Zimbabwe must sort out its political problems if it hopes to meet SADC's regional economic integration targets, Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni warned on Monday.

US criticises Africa's rights record
Sudan's government failed last year to stop atrocities in its western Darfur region, while Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe used intimidation and violence to remain in power, the US State Department said in an annual report released on Monday.

What about the US rights record?

Ivory Coast peace process 'over'
Rebels in Ivory Coast say the peace process is now dead and buried after their positions were attacked. United Nations peacekeepers arrested 68 people and seized weapons in the western, cocoa-producing region.

SA denies Ivory Coast peace process logjam
South Africa, the chief mediator in Ivory Coast's civil conflict, on Tuesday denied rebel claims that the peace process had collapsed after an attack by pro-government militants on a rebel-held town in the restive west.

Poverty, AIDS and war: The everyday tsumani
There are some people in the world’s wealthy countries who forecast that 2005 will be a decisive year for Africa.

Genocide, again and again
WATCH Hotel Rwanda, a movie based on the slaughter of nearly 1 million African Tutsis by the rival Hutus a decade ago, or visit museums documenting the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II, and grasp the awesome power of denial.

Ghana fast becoming gateway to west Africa
ARECENT survey conducted by the South African Institute of International Affairs on the experiences of South African companies and subsidiaries operating in Ghana found that almost all regard Ghana as a friendly investment destination.

Ugandan army says troops kill senior LRA rebel
Ugandan troops killed a commander from the Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal rebel group which has terrorised northern Uganda for 18 years, a senior officer said on Monday.

LRA rebels kill 24, maim eight in fresh attacks
Days after an 18-day ceasefire between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) expired on 22 February, the rebels have killed and maimed more than 30 people, officials told IRIN on Monday.

The bleeding heart of Africa
If only the solutions were so simple. And, as we have learned over the past thirty years, the Flute is not an easy instrument to learn, and the issue of world poverty has certainly not gone away. If anything, poverty in the "developing" world has got far more serious. Particularly in the great continent that is Africa.